A MIXED MARRIAGE

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14536, 7 December 1920, Page 5

A MIXED MARRIAGE

CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE, QUARRELS OVER RELIGION. (United Press Association.) Received December 7, 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, December 7. In the Divorce Court, the petition of William Alfred Joseph Cross for the restitution of conjugal rights from Elizabeth Eleanor Cross was dismissed. Petitioner, who gained the D.C.M. and a bar during the war, gave evidence that he had been a lay reader, and eventually became ordained. Differences arose through his wife being a Roman Catholic and he an Anglican. He had given her no cause to refuse to live with him, but admitted that under extreme provocation he struck her. , Respondent gave evidence that thev st one time lived in Dunedin, where her husband acted as a lay reader, and subsequently was ordained. From New Zealand they came to Sydney. Witness said tlmtf her husband frequently left her without money or food, and on many occasions cruelly treated her. She, however, was willing to live With i:er husband if he treated her as a wife, tot as a slave, and discontinued his illUeatment.